Jimmy Craig's "jimmytried" Instagram account is proof of his creativity and adaptability as a comic creator. His ability to discover humor in commonplace events and convey them in a realistic and enjoyable way is shown through the one-panel cartoons on this page. Jimmy uses a minimalistic drawing style to convey a humorous and thought-provoking message while also capturing the essence of a situation in a single panel.
The "jimmytried" account gives admirers of Jimmy Craig's work a new angle and a different way to appreciate his comedy. The one-panel comics on this page, whether you like his animal comics or not, are certain to make you grin and brighten your day. But if, on the other hand, you'd love to see some of his animal comics, then head here, here, here, here, and here to see some more of his work on Bored Panda!
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Bored Panda reached out to Jimmy Craig, a Massachusetts-based cartoonist known for his popular Instagram account, "jimmytried" as well as @theycantalkcomics. Jimmy's newest book, "Are You Gonna Eat That", is available for pre-order now.
Regarding the inspiration behind "jimmytried", Craig explained, "I started @jimmytried as an outlet for ideas that didn't fit my animal-themed series, They Can Talk. That series is also somewhat based in reality, and it's been fun to write some absurd/surreal jokes. I love single-panel comics like The Far Side and New Yorker cartoons and this new series has really felt like a natural extension of what I've already been doing."
Hello Jenna, I'll try to tip well since your boss isn't paying a living wage and depends on customers to do the rest.
I've always had a dream to work at D**k's Last Resort which, if you don't know, is a restaurant where part of the shtick is being mean to the customers. People go there to intentionally be roasted and treated badly. This is actually one of their greetings.
When asked about how he comes up with new ideas for his comics, the comic artist stated, "I think most of my comics in the past have been grounded, observational jokes, and this series attempts to run in the opposite direction. Instead of being about a pet cat, it's a comic about a vampire at the gym. It's been really fun to write ideas without any rules or parameters - sometimes I just feel like drawing Godzilla. Despite the random, non-sequitur nature of this series, I think readers will recognize my humor in anything that I write."
*That girl is on fireeeee over laps the song*
Load More Replies...I have no idea why people are so scared of candles. Watch them. Keep them in a safe spot. It's gonna be okay.
That's ME!!! I would NEVER give a candle ad a gift. I do have some in a 5 gallon bucket for emergencies, but they'd have low metal candle holders, be on a cookie sheet, on the quartz counter and away from the edge. And I'd blow them out every time I left the room! I LOVE the battery votives! 🕯️
Very unlikely that they will burn down the house.
Load More Replies...Regarding his minimalist drawing style, Jimmy revealed, "My minimalist style is likely a result of the fact that I try to get an idea finished as quickly as possible. I'm admittedly incredibly impatient and spending a lot of time on a drawing would just give me more opportunity to second-guess it. I also try to distill a joke into its simplest form, both in dialogue and drawing."
For some reason they're all pressing against him though, plentiful of space on the left
Load More Replies...And we really don't want to hear your conversations!! Everybody in the background should start replying to their conversations - loudly enough to be heard- then these idiots who go around talking on speaker would maybe take them off speaker and we wouldn't have to listen to them anymore.
I sat next to a guy doing exactly this at the bus station this afternoon. If he hadn't gotten on a bus just in time a combination of that and PMS induced rage might well have resulted in an unfortunate incident involving his phone being shoved down his throat.
I do not understand why people do this. Also, what's with playing music on your phone while walking around?
I not only hate having to listen to someone's conversation, I REALLY hate when people have you on speaker! Not that I'm saying anything I don't want people to know. But in an informal conversation you make noises hem and haw, sigh, grunt, etc. I used to work in customer service. If I thought I was on speaker when I answered, I'd say "hello? HELLO? I can barely hear you" When they turn off the speaker and ask if it was better. I'd say "MUCH!"
If I were stuck on public transport for a longer period of time and someone had a conversation on speaker, I would purposefully play music loud just so they won't hear each other.
But do you tell them in person? Does anybody? I just sit there and mumble angrily to myself :/
Load More Replies...Oh No! How ever did I manage to trip over your Box and "accidently" kick it into the sea?
This is my brother-in-law... At every party, gathering , or visit, and no, not everybody likes your musical choices.
And it gets progressively louder as you walk up the beach as each Bluetooth speaker tries to out compete the last
Thus solving the riddle of "why are all those people stomping my boombox?"
The person with the loud music can play my favorite song and I'll still be irritated. I don't like loud music.
Jimmy often features animals in his comics and said, "I really love coming up with animal jokes. It's fun to think of them in situations that we've only seen portrayed with humans - like imagining a gang of chimps robbing a bank and expecting it to be full of bananas. That idea would never fit in a They Can Talk comic, so it's been satisfying to have a place to share it."
🎶i ordered riceeeeeeee, and chickn n gravyyyyy, but all u gaveeee me, was chickn n riceeee🎵
Load More Replies...Literally happened last night. Ordered a burger. Got shrimp. Ate the shrimp anyway because I was hungry. It was better than what I actually ordered. Still annoying though! :)
I made an order once and they gave me pork instead of chicken. It tasted so weird.
Good decisions come from wisdom. Wisdom comes from bad decisions...
Regarding the impact of his social media following on his career as a comic creator and the future of "jimmytried", Craig shared, "The response to @jimmytried has been awesome and I hope it continues to grow and find new readers. I could never have predicted the opportunities that They Can Talk has led to, and I hope this series is full of surprises too."
It's hot and stuffy and smells of dirty carpets and sin. There's a big clock that ticks really loudly and slowly
And one of the lights - just one - has a flicker.
Load More Replies...But you don't find out until after you have filled out three pages of forms and read and initialled ten more pages. Then, you walk up, they type in the computer, and proceed to tell you in broken English (regardless of what languages you actually speak) that they are sorry, but there appears to have been some error, could you please go take another number and wait to be called."
Load More Replies...And someone comes and calls something really close to your name every few minutes, but another person gets up. People who arrived ages after you are getting their names called first. There's no toilet.
Waiting rooms are a great place for me to get away from my wife and kids and work and just sit and do nothing. One man's hell another man's heaven?
Finally, when asked about the message he hopes to convey to his audience through his work, the artist said, "I don't know if there's a specific message, but if my comics make someone laugh or brighten their day a little bit, that's all I can hope for."
With that being said, make sure to pre-order Jimmy’s newest book, Are You Gonna Eat That? on Amazon. And follow @jimmytried Instagram / Twitter!
The theme song for this pops into my head more than I care to admit
They forgot to add '...and make sure they live to be 50 years old'.
Cats will come as they please once they start the fire and cooking.
Load More Replies...That's not right - three witches are required for a coven. Two witches get on each other's nerves; the third one can get them to make up, so they can all get on the nerves of everyone else. If a coven has more than three members, they all get on each other's nerves. Hence why the collective noun for a group of witches is not "coven", but "argument".
Perditax > Magrat. That's a hill upon which I'm willing to die.
Load More Replies...Oh god this along with the laugh track in my head should not have made me laugh so hard
Load More Replies...Huh...the only way I use 'god', 'Jesus Christ' etc is in vain. JFC is a fave, too.
That's not the definition of vain in the bible. It mean to do something in the name of. So like all those people who went and killed "in the name of God" like Muslims or during the crusades... Yeah they're in a bad place
Load More Replies...handy little tip: do things that make you feel safe again, not young. curl up with a blanket and watch a good movie during a rainstorm. you'll feel like a child. trust me.
Especially if you have hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Load More Replies...Tried to show my daughter how to do a cartwheel.....oh the pain 😞
God, yes. Jesus, no. At least from what I've read in the Bible.
Load More Replies...Cartoon isn't very funny but the b******t christian comments got me pissing in my pants.
"I regret to inform you that I will be able to attend."
Load More Replies...I know it just takes people like him to f up a record =_= (jk)
Load More Replies...Nobody holding the ladder and a garbage can blocking the fire extinguisher. That's two safety violations right there.
and my child walks in in the middle of the night to tell me he puked.
my kids just went back to sleep in it, so we got to find them completely covered in puke eventually
Load More Replies...well, sharks are actually less likely to kill you then the virus is.
Load More Replies...why did you get downvoted geeze anyways it mean home ,owners, association
Load More Replies...And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
My HOA is not strict at all. People park in the street all the time and have work vehicles in the driveway.
That color is not allowed in this neighborhood. You think the HOA is gonna accept greenery
Isn't it fortunate that only our lips are that type of skin and not the whole body.
Good. I love surprises (until they end up to be boxes filled with haunted doll body parts)
I feel like this is the premise of every home remodeling TikTok I see
Nope, I don't get paid for 3 more days! Spill or I'll roll you up to your knees!
this has always confused me! like does the head lock on or does he have to balance it on his shoulders??
Load More Replies...🎶 Head, wallet, keys and phone, keys and phone. Head, wallet, keys and phone, keys and phone. Leave even one, and you are sure to moan. Head, wallet, keys and phone, keys and phone! 🎶 For those of you with heads firmly attached, substitute "glasses" or "breakfast" for "head". Song credit: Penn Holderness :)
I love honeycrisp apples. No wonder she ate that apple, they are so delicious and aromatic.
Sounds like an advert - honeycrisp apples are so delicious and aromatic that even Eve couldn't resist
Load More Replies...Well, if you fried up that fish and added some cheese and tartre sauce you could make fishburgers.
pretty sure he could conjure up some potatoes for chips as well
Load More Replies...As i say to my bros ,he who dose not cook or bring his own food dose not get to complain :P
WAIT help the stupid non-religious person in the room WHAT IS HAPPENING
Umm... this one? /s Screenshot...5a7878.png
Used that excuse this weekend. Wife and I were at our best couples house, my BF said. You look like your getting ready to go. I said, I am, I'm 30 and I'm tired. It was 9:30 on a Saturday and we got there at 7. Mind you 10 years ago we were all staying up til the sun came up tripping balls and smoking weed
Dang it! I knew I recognised the style, Jimmy Craig does "They Can Talk" too (couldn't place it till I saw a dog lol)
Ohhh, thanks for pointing that out! Makes so much sense now
Load More Replies...I just had an idea for an ad, don't mind me. "A good shot of pepper spray makes the carolers go far away. Buy our peppermint scented pepper spray, for all you holiday needs."
Load More Replies...You have to cancel three months in advance or your subscription will be extended for another 12 months.
Load More Replies...I picked up a hitchhiker once, but I was with a super hot ninja like PhD from Kiev....This guy was crazy awesome, I ended up getting backstage to a phish concert the next weekend & making thousands of friends through this guy..... and all while you people were sheltering in place, we were having underground concerts in the woods every weekend...all those musicians were told not to come onto work....my business took way off, and now my work is booked up for almost 2 years & sell my pieces starting at 2k. Picking up a hitchhiker is sometimes the best thing ever... but... I had super intimidating ex Russian guy rocket scientist with me...it wasn't raining.
So let's see...you dated a "rocket scientist" in this post, almost married a "super cute doctor" in another post, think that we can plant crops with electricity in a different post, and also think the Covid pandemic was a "farce". Yeah, I call bull s**t.
Load More Replies...I once made a list of deadly poisons that cure or partially cure other deadly poisons. An astonishing number of pairs of deadly poisons cancel one another out. But that's not what this cartoon is about.
Load More Replies...If you look on the list of side effects for Every medicine. It includes the disease that the medicine is intended to cure. That's not because the medicine causes that disease, it's simply because it may fail to cure the disease.
Don't even think of being saved until the billing is sorted.
Load More Replies...I know they tease but the few times I’ve been to the ER the LAST thing they do is billing. I’ll have my insurance info at the ready but they don’t want it. Much later, after all the docs, tests, treatments, etc. right before discharge the person comes around to collect the info. They also don’t do payment at that time. They bill you later. The only thing they ask for upon admission is your ID. Maybe it’s different in different places around the US. My experience is limited to a total of 2 hospitals in the same city.
There’s a far side where the woman is wearing a bunch of knives and power tools tied together
I remember that one! Plus some barbed wire if I'm not mistaken. XD
Load More Replies...Ebenezer Scrooge! I love Majestica's rendition of the Christmas Carol, they executed it perfectly
https://angrysnowmans.bandcamp.com/track/ebeneezer-uber-alles-2019
Load More Replies...There's a lovely old cartoon I know. Two spiders have woven their webs across the end of a slippery dip for young children. The caption is "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings".
"It's not what it looks like" because there are two different ways to see it. One is two faces and the other is a n ornate vase.
Why did you get downvoted? This made the most sense to me of all the comments!
Load More Replies...Its optical illusion. You can see Vase but you can also see two faces. Rubins-vas...0f-png.jpg
*didst thou remember to use the potty? -- useth is second person singular case.
This is a genuine concern. Both for suits of armour and for astronauts.
"As you can see, I broke into your house far too easily. Wanna buy some new locks? Either way it'll cost you $500 and your gaming system and TV."
Nah it’s an octopus. I think it might be her 3rd cousin twice removed Barnicus
Load More Replies...Win another one! (I almost said something far more cynical and depressing, but stopped myself at the last minute).
Only if it's a subway series. (OK, I felt bad as a Yankees fan going to watch them at Orioles Park at Camden Yards, and realizing we Yankees fans were in the vast majority.)
The patches on their shirts make me think that it's actually soccer, or 'football', (⚽️) as the rest of the world calls it.
Load More Replies...It’s just pineapple! IT’S JUST PINEAPPLE-
Load More Replies...I'm allergic to cow's milk and usually get almond milk. But after hearing it referred to as nut milk once, I have a difficult time forgetting that so I can enjoy it.
I really love oat milk. It has a nice nutty flavor and is much better for the environment
Load More Replies...Back in the day there used to be one kind .... milk. Not skim, 1%, 2%, whole, oat, soy, almond.......
I didn't know I had lactose intolerance until I had options
Load More Replies...I got angry at Almond Milk, etc., when my son was born allergic to milk protein, and I discovered to my dismay (after fortunately reading the nutrition label) that almond milk is basically sugar water. Tons of added sugar, and very little protein. Might as well drink a soda for all the good it will do you.
There are no, or at least greatly reduced, sugar options
Load More Replies...at what tipping point do they cease to be catagorised as 'milk'
You are here! I figured you’d pounce or breakout the murder mittens or something on that can of tuna above!!
Load More Replies...I think because the place is literally rundown and closed. It’s not the same anymore.
Load More Replies...Very good. A lot of Larson-esque things, and that's about as big a compliment as you can get (Obviously fewer cows)
That's what I was thinking, Larson-esque, and yep, that's way up there!
Load More Replies...Very good. A lot of Larson-esque things, and that's about as big a compliment as you can get (Obviously fewer cows)
That's what I was thinking, Larson-esque, and yep, that's way up there!
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